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Martha Gellhorn report on Dachau Concentration Camp 1945 |
1945, Collier's Magazine, Death Camps, Recent Articles

Dachau
(Collier’s Magazine, 1945)

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Attached is Martha Gellhorn’s (1908 – 1998) very disturbing eyewitness account of the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Poland:

Nothing about war was ever as insanely wicked as these starved and outraged naked, nameless dead. Behind one pile of dead lay the clothed healthy bodies of the German guards who had been found in this camp. They were killed at once by the prisoners when the American Army entered.


The man primarily responsible for delivering the innocent into the ovens of the death camps was Obergrupenfuehrer Albert Ganzenmüller click here to read about him…

Mahalia Jackson Magazine Article | Christian Faith of Mahalia Jackson | Mahalia Jackson Personal Story
1964, Faith, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

The Faith of Mahalia Jackson
(Pageant Magazine, 1964)

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In this 1964 article, the cherished Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (1911 – 1972) explained for the reader the relationship she had with the Almighty and further remarked that this relationship was the exact one God required from Christians:

– you have to have a made-up mind. You don’t straddle the fence serving God; we must put our all on the alter and let God abide.

The State of African-Americans in 1929 (The Book League, 1929)
1929, African-American History, Recent Articles, The Book League

The State of African-Americans in 1929
(The Book League, 1929)

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This book review of Scott Nearing’s Black Americastyle=border:none
was published on the eve of the Great Depression and it provides a very accurate account of that community.

There are in the United States today, if statistics do not lie, some twelve million Negroes. The population of the Argentine is not so large, nor that of Holland, nor that of Sweden. Eight million of these dark Americans live in the South. In Georgia alone there are more than a million colored people…How do they live – these blacks in a country controlled by whites.


Author Scott Nearing (1883 – 1983) was an American naturalist, educator and civil rights advocate.


Click here to read an article by Ralph Ellison concerning Black writers of the 1930s.

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1952, African-American History, Pageant Magazine

The Power of the African-American Press
(Pageant Magazine, 1952)

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President Truman was re-elected in 1948 by a slender margin of 52,000 votes in the circulation area of The Chicago Defender, which almost alone of all the newspapers of all kinds in that area, supported Truman. After the election it published a boastful full-page advertisement –

What is the Negro press? Primarily it is a protest press demanding the correction of injustice to colored people. ‘We are organs of protest,’ explains Thomas W. Young, publisher of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, ‘born more than a hundred years ago in righteous indignation over the institution of slavery.’

The Ice was Thawing... (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)
1949, African-American History, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

The Ice was Thawing…
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

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Starting in the 1940s, small articles like the one here began appearing in magazines and newspapers across the nation – snippets indicating that the American people (ie. whites) were slowly catching on to the system of racial injustice they had inherited – and wondering aloud as to the tyranny of it all:

To 13 co-eds at Uppsala College, East Orange, N.J., democracy is something more than a worn text-book theory. It is a living, though thorny, reality. Shortly before school’s end, they formed one of the nation’s first interracial, interfaith college social sororities.


Another article about segregation’s end can be read here.

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Was Jim Crow a Person | Jim Crow Origin | 1960s Jim Crow Empire Starts to Crumble
1963, African-American History, Recent Articles, Washington World

The Beginning of the End for Jim Crow
(Washington World, 1963)

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By citing numerous examples of American jurisprudence spanning the early to mid-Fifties, this uncredited journalist illustrates that the era of Jim Crow was being disassembled brick-by-bigoted-brick:

All across the South, the segregation wall is cracking. The hammer is being wielded by the courts… The executive branch is also moving into the civil rights field.

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Humphrey Bogart and his Feud with the Hollywood Press (Pageant Magazine, 1956)
1956, Hollywood History, Pageant Magazine

Humphrey Bogart and his Feud with the Hollywood Press
(Pageant Magazine, 1956)

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There was a time, Humphrey Bogart maintains, when he saw all interviewers and tried to answer all questions put to him…

But I can’t take it anymore, I’ve had to cut the fan magazines off my list entirely. Just the sheer smell of them drives me crazy. They smell of milk. The interviewers themselves treat you like a two-year-old child with their will-Debbie-marry-Eddie and can-Lance-Fuller-live-without-a-wife kind of idiocy. You know the whole sorry groove of the thing.


You can read about David Niven HERE

The Crew of the Enola Gay Fifteen Years Later (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, The Enola Gay

The Crew of the Enola Gay Fifteen Years Later
(Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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The men of the Enola Gay were hand-picked experts, chosen for intelligence, emotional stability and discipline, qualities they have put to good use in their post-war careers. Four remained in the service (one died in 1953) and the others are all successful in their business carees. They earn above-average salaries, all but one are married and they have 26 children among them. None of them has been to Japan since the war, and few have met since separation.

The Bombers Speak (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Coronet Magazine, The Enola Gay

The Bombers Speak
(Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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Appearing in a 1960 issue of Coronet Magazine was this piece that revealed the assorted introspective perceptions of the crew of the Enola Gay.


In the fifteen years that had past since the dropping of the Atomic bomb these are the personal thoughts that were produced after years of sober reflection concerning their part in one of the preeminent events of the last century:

After 15 years the scene over Hiroshima is still sharp and clear to them, and though they disagree on details, they are unanimous on the point of whether they’d do the same things again.

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Luftangriffe auf München 1942 | Munich Bombed 1942
1942, German Home Front, PM Tabloid

RAF Bombs Munich
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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Throughout the course of the Second World War, the city of Munich was bombed seventy-four times by both the Royal Air Force as well as the U.S. Army Air Corps. The attached article gives an account of the third of these attacks.

Giant four-motored planes flew in over their targets so low that they could clearly see the Brown House and the Beer Hall where Hitler organized his 1923 putsch… The citizens of Munich will, no doubt, be thinking of their Fuehrer today as they survey the bombed-out buildings and piles of rubble in the streets where Hitler first harangued them about his political ideas.

Walt Disney's Artists and the Making of 'Bambi' (Collier's Magazine, 1942)
1942, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, Walt Disney

Walt Disney’s Artists and the Making of ‘Bambi’
(Collier’s Magazine, 1942)

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For the production of Snow White (1938), the Disney artists had gone to great lengths in order to properly portray the manner in which young women move; these efforts were rewarded at the box-office to such a high degree that the same devotion was applied to the study of deer anatomy in their efforts to create Bambi (1942).

We had to remember, that Disney has a ruthless fidelity to the physical scene, to the truth of nature, even when he may seem to be distorting nature.

Click here to read more articles about Disney animation.

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Pepsi-Cola Hits The Spot Primary Source History |1940 Pepsi Cola Famous Radio Jingle
1940, Advertising, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

A Most Memorable Jingle
(PM Tabloid, 1940)

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Coca-Cola may be the real thing, but in 1940 Pepsi had launched the ad that made Madison Avenue sit up and realize the true power of radio advertising. It was the famous radio jingle that we still hear today in every play, movie and TV show wishing to create the perfect Forties atmosphere – you know the one: Pepsi Cola hits the spot, etc., etc., etc. A real toe-tapper. The attached article will clue you-in to it’s significance.

Pattern of Conquest by Joseph Harsch Book Review | 1941 German Home Front Magazine Article
1941, German Home Front, Newsweek

Living Under the Bombs
(Newsweek Magazine, 1941)

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Here is one of the reviews of Pattern of Conqueststyle=border:none, a book by Joseph C. Harsch (1905 – 1998) – a CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR correspondent who had been posted to Germany during the earliest years of the war:

Harsch says that German morale is ‘fundamentally unsound’ however, and that it took a bad beating when the RAF first bombed Berlin, which Marshal Goering had said would happen only ‘over his dead body’. (‘Have you heard the news?’ Berliners asked each other, after the first raids. ‘Goering’s dead.’)


Click here to read about the 1943 bombing campaign against Germany.

Allied Bombing Campaign Over Nazi Germany 1944
1944, German Home Front, Newsweek

‘Eighth Over Berlin”
(Newsweek Magazine, 1944)

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Comparing the American [daylight] raids with the RAF [nighttime] incursions, it was certainly a great shock to Berliners to find their city now open to round-the-clock bombing.

We don’t mind the Yanks who come when the sun shines and it’s warm. It’s the Tommies sneaking in at night that we don’t like so much.

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